🔧 Sabotage

Ukrainian forces used drones to mine roads behind Russian lines in Pokrovsk, severing ground supply and reinforcement routes for Russian troops who had entered the city.

Pokrovsk, Donetsk
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Ukrainian forces used drones to mine roads behind Russian lines in Pokrovsk, severing ground supply and reinforcement routes for Russian troops who had entered the city.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Russia intensifies attacks against Ukraine's power grid, advancing in Pokrovsk and Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Russian forces recently advanced in northern and eastern Pokrovsk and in southern Myrnohrad

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Extracted: 2026-02-16T21:56:26.174Z

Source story: day-1359a-2025-11-17